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9/11Illustrated History of McLean County
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- Publication date
- 1982
- Usage
- Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
- Topics
- McLean County, Illinois History, Great Depression, Photographs, History, Bloomington-Normal
- Collection
- opensource
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 2.6G
In this volume of over 500 illustrations the story of this land, called McLean County, Illinois, is explored. Starting with the land itself, the reader is shown the earliest inhabitants, the white settler, the Yankee and his war against slavery. These photographs, most of them never before published, then allow us to view the growth of our towns and city, with their inherent closeness to the land and the farmers who grew with it.
Bloomington-Normal's age of elegance is viewed with the knowledge that it was an age of innocents, for the 20th Century was to quickly announce itself with a disastrous fire and the entry of another major conflict which, when over, left us with Prohibition and the automobile, two social forces which were at odds with one another.
But while the modern world was making itself felt in the country, severe economic depression overwhelmed all the citizenry and simple survival ruled the day. With the Illinois National Guard readying itself it was known that war was again around the corner, and when McLean County mobilized it was a total commitment. This act spelled the end of a previously traditional way of life, for when the men returned they found their homes changed in a profound way.
